critics Flashcards
(10 cards)
UNSWORTH
rosetti
“Rossettis poems are a protest that a ‘fallen women’ shouldnt be made to suffer for the rest of their lives
AVERY
rossetti
“Rossetti is far from conservative and often questioning, challenging and potentially subversive”
UNSWORTH
rossettti
“often turn to God for the love she cannot find on earth”
WALLNER
rossetti
“religious ideals are often in conflict with the speakers inner desires”
WORRALL
ibsen
“Torvalds security depends upon feeling superior. The games him and Nora play are designed to maintain his role as the dominant male”
THOMAS
ibsen
“Nora conciously acts the part of a doll wife”
THOMAS
ibsen
do not underestimate the power of determinism
“Torvald and Dr Rank are victims of social and biological determinism”
THOMAS
ibsen
“Torvald is imprisoned within the condiditioned assumptions of his middle class world”
“Torvald is as much a victim as Nora”
LEDGER
ibsen
“although the door firmly closes, there is no closure”
LEDGER
ibsen
“Nora can begin to construct and authentic identity for herself”